Example sentences of "[be] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone — whether self-employed or working for an employer — has the choice of continuing as they are or of switching instead to a personal pension . |
| 2 | A GIS is capable of identifying such slivers and allowing the user the choice of leaving them as they are or of replacing them with an average boundary position . |
| 3 | It is essential to work with a more complex picture of who the elderly are and of their role in society than the simple , depressing picture of a costly burden . |
| 4 | Anyone who is charged with running classes , sections of schools or whole schools needs to be aware of what those assumptions are and of their effects . |
| 5 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 6 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 7 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 8 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 9 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 10 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 11 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 12 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 13 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 14 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 15 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 16 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 17 | and it must of been because of that |
| 18 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 19 | THE IRAQIS latest cruel act of jailing British chef Paul Ride and their persistent attacks on Shi'ites are because of our feebleness . |
| 20 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 21 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 22 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 23 | The empirical research carried out here is intended to test the feasibility of this approach , as well as providing some general indications of what the effects might be and of one way by which they can be represented on the final output map . |
| 24 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 25 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 26 | If that class is sadly numerous today , it may be because of a common belief that ‘ British poetry has chosen to turn inwards , parochial , self-comforting and serviceable ’ . |
| 27 | If I decided to play in it , it would not be because of $50,000 but because I felt better . |
| 28 | IF ENGLAND fail to win the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Trophy — the grand title ( which is accompanied by the unofficial suffix of ‘ Mini World Cup ’ ) presumably intended to persuade the public that they are about to witness something cosmic rather than just another one-day tournament — it will not be because of being under-prepared . |
| 29 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 30 | If you failed it must be because of complex interactions with your environment . |